Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE744

The Missile Defense Agency awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract to Forge Group, LLC, a women-owned small business headquartered in Herndon, Virginia, under the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program. This contract vehicle, effective December 29, 2025, with a ceiling value of $151 billion and a completion date of December 28, 2035, utilizes full and open competition with no set-asides, allowing all qualifying contractors to compete for task orders. The contracting mechanism is structured to support the nation's multi-layered defense requirements across both classified and unclassified programs, with individual task and delivery orders potentially issued across multiple contract types and NAICS codes requiring various facility clearances. The prime contractor shall provide all necessary materials, labor, equipment, and facilities incidental to contract performance in accordance with order terms.

The SHIELD IDIQ procurement aims to develop and procure an advanced, multi-domain defense system capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats across all phases of flight from ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles targeting the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends. Work areas encompass research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts, leveraging advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures. This represents a comprehensive, long-term contracting solution enabling the Missile Defense Agency and other Department of Defense entities to rapidly issue orders supporting national defense objectives through a flexible 10-year contract mechanism consisting of a base ordering period and one or more optional ordering periods.